Obama’s biggest donors aren’t contributing money to his inauguration

On Friday, the Presidential Inaugural Committee released a list of 417 corporate and individual names that have contributed more than $200 to the organization, which plans events like the National Day of Service and the two Inaugural balls. But only 14 of Obama’s 443 campaign bundlers — those who raised more than $50,000 to well upwards of $500,000 — have so far donated to the group.
The list of bundlers who have not given to the Inaugural Committee include all four of the Obama campaign’s finance chairs: Ambassador Matthew Barzun, Eva Longoria, Jane Stetson, and Frank White, each of whom raised hundreds of thousands of dollars during the election. And while bundlers don’t necessarily donate their own money, each of them also gave the maximum legal amount to both the campaign and the Democratic National Committee, according to FEC records.
No one who raised more than $500,000 for the reelection has yet donated to the committee. Inaugurals rarely draw the same donor excitement as the election, and many of Obama’s bundlers were pressed to raise more and more in the final months of the campaign, but in 2009 scores of Obama bundlers proceeded to write checks for the events surrounding their candidate’s swearing-in.